al-Qadi Abu Muhammad al-Istakhri

القاضي أبو محمد الاصطخري

Al-Qadi Abu Muhammad al-Istakhri studied fiqh under al-Qadi Abu Hamid al-Marwarudhi; he was judge of Fasa and jurist of Fars, who commented on Mansur's al-Mustamal, and an accomplished jurist 1. He is not Abu Sa'id al-Istakhri (person/al-istakhri-abu-said-al-hasan), and his full name is not given in the text.

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Roles
Jurist · teacher
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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Qadi Abu Muhammad al-Istakhri studied jurisprudence under the judge Abu Hamid al-Marwarudhi. He was judge of Fasa and jurist of Fars. 1

He wrote a commentary on Mansur's "al-Musta'mal", and the book describes him as a refined jurist. 1

His full name is not given in the text, and he is not Abu Sa'id al-Istakhri. His death date is not in the data and needs an additional source.

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Studied under
Qadi Abu Hamid al-Marwarudhi, Ahmad ibn Amir ibn Bishr

People and things also explored

Abu al-Fayyad ibn al-Muntasir· Abu Ali ibn Hamkan al-Hamadhani· Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Ahmad al-Marwazi· Qadi Abu Hamid al-Marwarudhi, Ahmad ibn Amir ibn Bishr

Sources

  1. Tabaqat al-fuqaha' — Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi (ed. Ihsan Abbas, Dar al-Ra'id al-Arabi) , p. 62
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Abu al-Fayyad ibn al-Muntasir

Abu al-Fayyad Muhammad ibn al-Husayn ibn al-Muntasir, a companion of Abu Hamid al-Marwarudhi. He taught in Basra, and its jurists took from him. He is not the Abbasid caliph al-Muntasir (person/al-muntasir).